---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 171"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "171"
heading: "Forfeitures and seizures of guns, traps, teams, etc."
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/171"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XX — Glacier National Park"
---

# §171. Forfeitures and seizures of guns, traps, teams, etc.


All guns, traps, teams, horses, or means of transportation of every nature or description, used by any [person](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) or [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) within said [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) limits when engaged in killing, trapping, ensnaring, or capturing such wild beasts, birds, or wild animals shall be forfeited to the United States and may be seized by the officers in said [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) and held pending the prosecution of any [person](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) or [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) arrested under charge of violating the provisions of this Act, and upon conviction under this Act of such [person](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) or [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) using said guns, traps, teams, horses, or other means of transportation, such forfeiture shall be adjudicated as a penalty in [addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) to the other punishment provided under this Act. Such forfeited property shall be disposed of and accounted for by and under the authority of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior.


## Source credit

(Aug. 22, 1914, ch. 264, § 5, 38 Stat. 700.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is act Aug. 22, 1914, which is classified to sections 163 and 168 to 177 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.